Gun Owners Got Massive News on Black Friday, and Some People Are Terrified at What It Means

Shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday, President Barack Obama’s White House asked the American people to discuss the topic of gun control while gathered together with their family and friends.

It appears that just such a thing happened — but Obama and his fellow anti-gun liberals likely aren’t pleased with how the national conversation turned out.

According to statistics released by the FBI, this year’s Black Friday set a new record for the number of background checks conducted for new firearm purchases, according to The Associated Press (via Newsmax).

The agency responsible for conducting those checks announced this week that they processed 185,345 background checks, or about two checks every second of the day.

That was about a 5 percent increase over the number of checks run on 2014’s Black Friday.

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It is worth noting that FBI background checks don’t directly correlate to firearm sales, as some of the checks may have been for concealed carry permits, while others were undoubtedly for the purchase of multiple guns, but they are generally viewed as a good rough estimate on the number of guns the industry has sold.

It is also worth noting that whenever Obama and his fellow Democrats begin talking about infringing once again upon the Second Amendment-guaranteed rights of all Americans, gun sales typically rise.

President Obama wanted the American people to talk about gun control over the Thanksgiving holiday, but rather than discussing which provably failed policies should be expanded, they talked about which new guns they were planning on purchasing.

Obama and his fellow anti-gunners are likely terrified that instead of embracing their progressive policies that undermine one of our basic fundamental rights, the American people bought enough new firearms to equip an entire branch of the military — and, if necessary, defend themselves against further violations of their constitutional liberties.